Khaleda Zia

Khaleda Zia (15 August 1945-) was a Prime Minister of Bangladesh from 20 March 1991 to 30 March 1996, succeeding Kazi Zafar Ahmed and preceding Muhammad Habibur Rahman, and from 10 October 2001 to 29 October 2006, succeeding Latifur Rahman and Iajuddin Ahmed.

Biography
Khaleda Majumder was born on 15 August 1945 in Dinajpur, British Raj in what is now northwestern Bangladesh. She later married Ziaur Rahman, the President of Bangladesh from 1977 to 1981, and she became Vice-Chairman of the Bangladeshi Nationalist Party after her husband was killed. In 1991 she was elected in truely democratic elections, the first in a long time, and in 2001 she was elected as Prime Minister again after a five-year lull in which the Awami League ruled the country. 70% of Bangladeshi women were illiterate and 67,500,000 people were poor, so she strove to educated women in literacy and to distribute food to the poor. The GDP grew by 5% due to support of an entrepreneurial culture, and she left office in 2006 in a Bangladesh that had been much improved.